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Activating Urban Waterfronts: Planning and Design for Inclusive, Engaging and Adaptable Public Spaces book cover

1st Edition

Activating Urban Waterfronts Planning and Design for Inclusive, Engaging and Adaptable Public Spaces

By Quentin Stevens Copyright 2020
256 Pages 89 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 89 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 89 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Activating Urban Waterfronts shows how urban waterfronts can be designed, managed and used in ways that can make them more inclusive, lively and sustainable. The book draws on detailed examination of a diversity of waterfronts from cities across Europe, Australia and Asia, illustrating the challenges of connecting these waterfront precincts to the surrounding city and examining how well they... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Plugging the Waterfront into the City

1. Three ‘Southbanks’

2. Postcolonial Waterfronts: Global Imagery and Local Realities

Quentin Stevens, Marek Kozlowski and Norsidah Ujang

3. Tracing the Shifting Waterfront

4. Artificial Waterfronts

Part 2: Switching the Waterfront On

5. Appropriating the Spectacle

Quentin Stevens and Kim Dovey

6. The ‘City Beach’ as a New Waterfront Development Model

7. Post-Fordist Placemaking

Quentin Stevens and Mhairi Ambler

8. Sandpit Urbanism

9. A Temporary Waterfront: Prompting Public Engagement

Jacob Mikkelsen, Quentin Stevens, Catherine Hills and Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller

Conclusion

Biography

Quentin Stevens is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has professional degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning and previous taught at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He has published widely on the social uses of public spaces, including the books Transforming Urban Waterfronts: Fixity and Flow, The Ludic City, and Loose Space. His current areas of research interest include temporary and tactical urbanism, the contribution that public space design makes to social cohesion, and the role of memorials in national identity.

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